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Brendan I. Koerner

@brendankoerner

Brendan I. Koerner is a contributing editor at Wired and the author of Piano Demon and Now the Hell Will Start, the latter of which he is currently adapting for the filmmaker Spike Lee. His next book, about a fantastic early-1970s heist and its decades-long aftermath, is forthcoming from Crown.

"Why’s this so good?" No. 58: Scott Anderson and the hunger warriors

A tattered, stapled-together copy of Scott Anderson’s “The Hunger Warriors” now qualifies as one of my oldest and most treasured possessions. I distinctly remember snipping it out of the New…